Friday, August 21, 2009

Read this today; apparently the Bush administration hired Blackwater to carry out political assassinations. Bastards. But the gist of the article is that no assassinations were ever carried out under the program; whew!

So why am I apparently the only one asking the question "Did we get our money back?" I mean don't get me wrong; I'm relieved that my tax dollars weren't spent on assassinating people, but I'd kind of rather they weren't given to Cheney's croneys for _not_ assassinating people either...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead," says the paper, titled When Zombies Attack! Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.

"Thus, if zombies arrive, we must act quickly and decisively to eradicate them before they eradicate us."

Monday, August 10, 2009

It occurred to me on the weekend that I'd been a little lax in not sharing this web comic with you all. A dear friend of mine writes a web comic, Want to Buy Dignity, based on some situations from WoW, specifically the darker races, and it's fun and somewhat amusing. And the dark elf has a bad-ass platypus called Frumpy for a familiar, so what's not to love?

They regularly update, so if you're into web comics or WoW or both you might want to follow this one.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

I think I may have just found some potential role models: Margaret and Helen. Two women born in 1925/26 who have been best friends for 60 years and are now blogging about American politics, and it's fantastic. Good rants delivered as letters to each other, with the response from the other one at the end of the post. Their banner image is the two of them on motorised granny carts on the deck of a ship. Well worth reading. Hands up everyone who wants to be them when they grow up?